A History of Scottish Women's Writing

edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day

A History of Scottish Women's Writing

edited by Douglas Gifford and Dorothy McMillan

Published by Edinburgh University Press

Description

This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead--as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing--such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.